The margins of empire
Subtitle: Kurdish militias in the Ottoman tribal zone
By: Janet Klein
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Stanford, California
Language: eng
Number of pages: 275
ISBN-13: 9780804775700
Copyright date: 2011
Subjects: Armed Forces; Militia; Government relations; History; Kurds; Ethnic relations; Minorities
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages [249]-261) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the Hamidiye Light Cavalry in the Ottoman tribal zone; title: A manifold mission; title: The Hamidiye under Abdülhamid II : 1890-1908; title: The tribal light cavalry under the Young Turks : 1908-1914; title: The Hamidiye and the "agrarian question"; title: The Hamidiye and its legacy.